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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 29, 2020 12:01PM

You can put anything you want in ActualText. I often put entire paragraphs in there for various reasons, usually because the words are concatenated or fragmented and the root cause can't be fixed.

You can get a trial version of QuickFix from https://www.axes4.com/axespdf-quickfix-overview.html. Just open your file, go to the Unicode Mapping tool and it will show you how many mappings would need to be fixed. The trial version is fully functional, but it applies a watermark and changes some of the font colours when you save the document, so you can't send it to a client. Nevertheless, it's ideal for doing a proof of concept. We rapidly found we could justify the cost of a full license.

Steve